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...representatives would probably storm out. Nevertheless, some American politicians find the U.S. bargaining position increasingly unconscionable. "Are we prepared to tell the North Korean people to give up their dreams of freedom because, in the interest of the status quo, we are willing to make a deal with their slave masters in Pyongyang?" asks Senator Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican who backs a Senate bill on North Korean rights...
...other means, both domestically and abroad," he explains, instinctively clenching and unclenching his fists. Casting a glance at a bronze statue of Alexander Pushkin, Alexei twists his mouth scornfully and tosses off some vile talk about the father of modern Russian literature, who was descended from an Abyssinian slave. "How could he be the Russian national poet?" Not that Alexei cares much for culture. After what he considers to be a lifetime of oppression, he says he's ready for war. A lathe operator by trade, his role models include Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma...
...White House [July 5]. His dream of human liberty will not be realized until everyone on the planet is free. Liberty, democracy and peace are closely related, and perhaps they will come together at some time for the entire world. With regard to his affair with the slave Sally Hemings: Jefferson was one in a line of Presidents who have committed indiscretions, but we should not allow those actions to overshadow great deeds. CLAUDE MARTIN Tucson, Ariz...
...corrupt statesman who wrote works glorifying morality. When asked how he could reconcile such contradictory views, he answered that he was certainly better than someone who was corrupt and wrote books glorifying immorality. Jefferson was not corrupt, but he preached the sublimity of liberty and yet was a slave owner. Jefferson could have given an answer similar to Seneca's. ANGELO A. DE GENNARO San Antonio, Texas...
...until the DNA study was released in Nature in 1998 that the tide began to turn among historians. Although the article was misleadingly titled--the headline read JEFFERSON FATHERED SLAVE'S LAST CHILD, when in fact the study concluded solely that a Jefferson male had fathered that child--it provided the missing link that many historians needed. And there was other evidence: records indicate that Jefferson was at Monticello at the time of the conception of all of Hemings' children; Israel Jefferson, another slave at Monticello, corroborated Madison Hemings' story that he was the son of Jefferson and Hemings...